I greatly appreciate the perspectives shared in this video. The idea of the golden city myth as a distraction tactic is a particularly fascinating thought. Thank you.
I really enjoy your videos. I'm studying spanish at a university in california, and your content is excellent to learn alongside my university courses.
Always a pleasure to see you put out a new video. It's fascinating how rumors, myths, deception, and delusion all seem to shape this idea that never was. I didn't realize that the legend at one point had anything to do with Incan outposts.
All myths, as extravagant as they may be, reflect a reality. The problem is that people usually think this grain of truth makes the whole thing actual history
And the similar rumor happened after 1860 in the USA, the claim that gold had washed out into a hidden lake which was coated in gold, where a miner found it, got some, and then had to leave only to never recover the "lost mine/lake" of easy gold.
Hello. I have a question for you that I feel that you’re an expert on. I want to know what eye in ollin symbol means? The center is that an eye? If so what does the eye represent exactly? I’ve read that ollin means motion or movement but I also read it represents the 4 directions.
El Dorado is a real life Mithradathic Tragedy where the lust for gold of the colonizers lead them to their own deaths. Though that might be more of a comedy depending on your perspectives.
Do you think things would be better or worst if Amerindians were colonized and took over by Eastern Europeans(Russians) instead of Western Europeans And why?
Not to go whatifalthis on you or anything. But I think in the early years it would be better because Russia didnt have easy access to either sea. Therefore they wouldn't have been as destructive as the Spanish. But when the other European powers realized they could invade the new world I think the same civilization ending destruction would've occurred. Disease would still spread. No matter what.
@@jacobclay4263 If the Russians showed up and engaged in some smaller-scale colonization decades or centuries prior to other European powers, though, Indigenous communities might have had time to bounce back from Afro-Eurasian diseases with newfound immunity (as even in our timeline diseases spread through Indigenous communities through intra-continental trade networks, not just direct interaction with Europeans), which may have put them in a better position to resist later invasions. So, even if Western European colonization still happened a bit later, Colonization may have gone a bit more like it did in Africa and Asia in our timeline (i.e. less settlement, less complete cultural assimilation, more subjugation of local communities and rulers), especially in cases where epidemics played a direct role in weakening Indigenous powers at the time of colonization, like in the Inca Empire/Tawantinsuyu. This is all very speculative of course, things could have gone many different ways.
I mean things didn't go particularly well for the groups colonized by Russia like the Cossacks, Tartars and Siberian Indigenous communities. Many are arguably worse off today than indigenous Americans.
Always love watching your episodes! Great job!
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I greatly appreciate the perspectives shared in this video. The idea of the golden city myth as a distraction tactic is a particularly fascinating thought. Thank you.
I also find it fascinating, although it doesn't seem to have found a lot of support among academics...
I really enjoy your videos. I'm studying spanish at a university in california, and your content is excellent to learn alongside my university courses.
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Always a pleasure to see you put out a new video. It's fascinating how rumors, myths, deception, and delusion all seem to shape this idea that never was. I didn't realize that the legend at one point had anything to do with Incan outposts.
All myths, as extravagant as they may be, reflect a reality. The problem is that people usually think this grain of truth makes the whole thing actual history
And the similar rumor happened after 1860 in the USA, the claim that gold had washed out into a hidden lake which was coated in gold, where a miner found it, got some, and then had to leave only to never recover the "lost mine/lake" of easy gold.
Gold rushes tend to begin with rumors, so yeah. They're not that different
Ah yis new Aztlan video
Hope you enjoy it!
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Hope so too!
Hello. I have a question for you that I feel that you’re an expert on. I want to know what eye in ollin symbol means? The center is that an eye? If so what does the eye represent exactly?
I’ve read that ollin means motion or movement but I also read it represents the 4 directions.
Nahua symbology isn't my area of expertise, but eyes are a common symbol for stars in that context. Greetings
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El Dorado is a real life Mithradathic Tragedy where the lust for gold of the colonizers lead them to their own deaths. Though that might be more of a comedy depending on your perspectives.
Also this reminds me about modern crypto scams or GME people.
Do you think things would be better or worst if Amerindians were colonized and took over by Eastern Europeans(Russians) instead of Western Europeans And why?
Not to go whatifalthis on you or anything.
But I think in the early years it would be better because Russia didnt have easy access to either sea. Therefore they wouldn't have been as destructive as the Spanish. But when the other European powers realized they could invade the new world I think the same civilization ending destruction would've occurred. Disease would still spread. No matter what.
@@jacobclay4263 If the Russians showed up and engaged in some smaller-scale colonization decades or centuries prior to other European powers, though, Indigenous communities might have had time to bounce back from Afro-Eurasian diseases with newfound immunity (as even in our timeline diseases spread through Indigenous communities through intra-continental trade networks, not just direct interaction with Europeans), which may have put them in a better position to resist later invasions. So, even if Western European colonization still happened a bit later, Colonization may have gone a bit more like it did in Africa and Asia in our timeline (i.e. less settlement, less complete cultural assimilation, more subjugation of local communities and rulers), especially in cases where epidemics played a direct role in weakening Indigenous powers at the time of colonization, like in the Inca Empire/Tawantinsuyu. This is all very speculative of course, things could have gone many different ways.
I mean things didn't go particularly well for the groups colonized by Russia like the Cossacks, Tartars and Siberian Indigenous communities. Many are arguably worse off today than indigenous Americans.
西班牙殖民者眼中的黄金国，冒险与贪婪的并存。
贪婪？ 是的。 冒险？ 不，那是一场噩梦